Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A Mother’s love, the purestAnd the first you’ve ever knownAlways calm and soothingWhen you are all aloneA Mother’s love, eternalBuilt around a loving homeAny time you’re hurt or troubledAnd don’t know what to doMother’s love is there to comfort youA Mother’s love, unerringWatches over as you growAlways there supporting Through your highs and lows A…

Searching through our heritageMany of us made claimsOver the course of timeOf Irish blood in our veinsThey came from land far awayThey came from famine and fireThere was no more home for themWhen they left old Mother Eire(Chorus)To be sure …. To be sureThey can still raise a smileAnd think of their homeOn the Emerald…

Many folk have been wonderingHow it might have beenWhen it comes to the IrishOne side’s orange, one side’s greenIt is really ironicNor would they have knownIt was a disputeOver the old English throneSo, when do you thinkThat it all begun?It happened in the budding yearOf sixteen ninety oneWell, King William came from far OrangeJames’ daughter…

(Instrumental intro)Long before the days of Rock and RollLong before they had begunThey played such things as a GlockenspielWhen looking for some funThey even had an organistrumThough it sounded rather glumBut over centuries they refined itA revival had begunNow it was called the hurdy-gurdyWith it came that hurdy-gurdy soundCrank it, crank it roundSpin out that…

Among the special memories Implanted in my youthDriving down the FleurieuWith luggage strapped to the roofThose were special memories That remain until this dayWhen we went on holiday Down in Encounter Bay Circa nineteen fiftyNow that was a different sceneRight there in the footstepsWhere Matthew Flinders had beenThe old house still standing Right until this…

(instrumental intro)I grew up with HerShe was the girl next doorAlways proved to beMy best friendSince we were fourAnd so, through the yearsThere was a special trustAnd a true rapportFrom an early age we sworeTo be as one for evermoreA true ‘Tomboy’Was the girl next doorAnd as she flowered Everybody sawHow much I lovedThe girl…

(Instrumental intro)When did the anguish first beginWhen did the viper venture in And snare our loving childWho always wore a smile While growing free and wild From when she newly flowered As if from some dark cloudLight faded from that day In a dark and dismal shroud She quietly drifted away Blinded by the liesSpat…

I saw her standing thereWhen they opened the doorA vision so lovelyAcross the ballroom floorI remember the band playing a beautiful songIt gave me the courageTo stumble right onAcross the dance floorI bumbled on.She took my handWe danced to that tuneWaltzed togetherAll round the roomI asked if she would come with meAnd we drove through…

Waiting through the overtureI was waiting for act one to beginWaiting for the curtain risingAnd the Players to come and enter inAnd there on the stage As the house lights dimmed Sittig there all forlornWas the lovely heroinePining the while With a sad soliloquyTelling of forbidden loveThat never was to beHeld there as the wardA…

In a land oppressed by the TyrantAnd when his Nobles took over their lands(instrumental Interlude) There arose the son of a Lowland KnightTo avenge what they had done to his brideHe sacked LanarkFor a rebellion was to startHere the die was castThe Clans all rallied around himTo deploy in the NorthAnd they faced old Longshank’s…